Managing Organization Change IP 3

Meeting Overview

Overview of R&D Community Building Session

Day One:

Opening and welcome: Total Group

How we got here—the overall goal: Total Group

Ice Breaker: Your recommendation, the objective, and which team grouping to use.

(purpose of the Ice Breaker is to create specific ground rules for effectiveness and

set the tone for full participation and open communication)

Total Group debrief of exercise

Instructions for completing survey questionnaires—individual time to complete questionnaire

Lunch

Review results of the questionnaires (Recommend team groupings for this activity.)

What made sense?

What questions do you have?

What is surprising?

Stop-continue-start charting

Sharing across teams/groups (Recommend team groupings for this activity.) Begin Nominal Group Technique process for identifying themes and setting

priorities.

Day One End: What have we learned?

Day Two:

Continue Nominal Group Technique process for generating themes and setting priorities.

The Key Themes & Key Priorities – A Summary presentation

Assign “task” teams to further develop ideas and identify potential next steps

Working Lunch in teams

Presentation of potential next steps or actions by each team to the overall community

Day Two End: What have we learned?

Day Three

Continue Presentations.

Smaller group meetings where individuals develop and share PERSONAL COMMITMENTS: What will I do differently as a result of attending this

community building session? How will we put this all to use? (Recommend

team groupings for this activity.)

Day Three End: Evaluation—What went well that we should continue? What would we

do differently the next time?